Baby-Making Isn't What It Used To Behttp://www.businessinsider.com/baby-making-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-2012-11/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:42:41 -0500Jennifer Welshhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b9308decad04dc23000001SpencerFri, 30 Nov 2012 17:17:49 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b9308decad04dc23000001
I cannot agree more. Well said.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b92f6b6bb3f7bd05000003SpencerFri, 30 Nov 2012 17:12:59 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b92f6b6bb3f7bd05000003
It isn't "cool" for white women to settle down and raise a kid. Schools push so hard to convince everyone to get educated and work, they forget about recreating children for them to teach down the road. Make it affordable for one parent to support the family and I'll bet you see a jump in birthratehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b92e79eab8ea407f000001SpencerFri, 30 Nov 2012 17:08:57 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b92e79eab8ea407f000001
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but something to worry about for sure. Take a look at Japan. There is a huge number of elderly and very few children. it is only a matter of time before industry and economy slow due to lack of employees. I am sure immigration will fill this, but who wants their nation unable to support itself.
As for the falling birthrate, I can tell you as a 26 year old male in this country that it is far too expensive to think about starting a family at my age. In 1957 the average income for a man was around 12,000 but a new house cost 24,000. Products were cheaper and more reliable. Now everything is made to break at a certain point but it is the new "hip" must have" thing because it is shinny. Greed by large corporations are killing the idea of having a family young. Yes my friends and I were all taught contraception and health classes to slow unwanted pregnancies, but we also see this huge divorce rate and no one wants to take the chance to get married for fear of a divorce. If we want to up birthrates, lower prices of living so we can afford to raise a child.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b8c55d6bb3f7b93c000003Mohamad EkoFri, 30 Nov 2012 09:40:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b8c55d6bb3f7b93c000003
fbhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b8bca0ecad04cb42000014HDJFri, 30 Nov 2012 09:03:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b8bca0ecad04cb42000014
The cost of living is insane that is why the bird rates are low. All jobs were outsourced, America just consumes it does not produce anything, so there is no real wealth anymore just debt. We all rack up debt to get ahead both private citizens and the government.
Private debt levels are at enormous levels. Both private and public debt are the major issues in America, not just the public (govt debt) which it seems everyone is focusing on. Private debt is also enormous, it is higher than it was in the 20's, debt deflation is inevitable. Once both public and private debt is liquidated and written off to the junk status that it is then a real recovery will begin. Save your physical dollar bills folks. Ben Bernanke's digital dollars he printed all these years will most likely disappear.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7dca7ecad04b123000001mikej77Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:07:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7dca7ecad04b123000001
Try to think globally- we have 7 billion people with a midrange prediction of 9 billion.
If you have no children it is the end of the world for YOU. This is all you have to concern youself with.
SocSec and the other programs are funded out of the general wealth of society and all the so-called premiums are tossed into general revenue and 100% spent. As things evolve they will be funded directly from internal transfers from the UST. This is what we do today. Much of the numbers you see are purely accounting fictions so the columns stay neat.
All of these programs including the health aspects of the VA can be rolled into Obamacare and disappear without a ripple.
Think very carefully because until recently and after 100,000s of years your own family has been a pretty significant part of life.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d71cecad040712000019DalinanThu, 29 Nov 2012 16:43:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d71cecad040712000019
The baby bust is hardly surprising when you consider the indentured servitude of recent college grads these days- even in engineering, the sciences and other generally wealth-promoting fields. Student loan servicing costs (basically a usury-driven extortion racket, since the 2005 law of the financial industry) and ballooning health care expenses mean financial ruin even for the smartest, hardest-working tech grads, aside from those with the good fortune of being born into the manorial class to begin with. Especially since tech jobs even now are being shipped wholesale to India, Bangladesh or the Philippines, and those remaining in the US have ridiculous requirements (5 years experience for an entry-level engineer or programmer- yeah, sure). Also kinda hard to start a tech business if you're already drowning in debt from your training and health care expenses. I know a good many people who went to public schools and worked during college to keep expenses down, but even the public Uni's are going crazy with the cost increases thanks to state budget cuts.
So how, exactly, can a US grad realistically manage to start a family? Normally the lower birth rate would lead to wage rises and a self-correction effect, but of course that's also undercut by globalization and corruption. India alone has a pool of 1 billion + people for cheap labor, with its population still growing at a ridiculous and unsustainable rate. And so long as the US tech industry continues to game the system- aka using lobbyists and legalized bribery of our politicians, to introduce still more financial perks for CEO's who outsource US jobs and abuse the H1-B visa program- the otherwise natural corrections in a given economy are thwarted by the continual shifting of jobs to India.
Many tech grads doing the best are the ones now working overseas, e.g. the ones who've learned a language like Dutch, French or especially German (where engineers and tech innovators are more highly valued), put out some technical publications in the language and landed a position in a country more focused on developing talent than an obsession with cheap labor making the rich lords of the manor even richer and more corrupt than they already are. It's not easy to do this and it often helps to have come ancestry in these countries, but if you're willing to contribute and make an effort to pick up the language, the best option is often working overseas. I hope things get reformed in the US, cuz the current system can't be sustained for much longer.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d33b6bb3f70870000006um, noThu, 29 Nov 2012 16:27:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d33b6bb3f70870000006
No one will listen because an endless supply of immigrants (skilled or otherwise) will crater wages to minimum wage for 95% of the workforce, causing entitlement spending (esp. Medicaid) to soar even more because when there's an endless supply of cheap labor, why should business provide health insurance?
Immigration is not a cure all. Sometimes it's needed and a good thing. Right now, not so much.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d134eab8ea3377000002LizThu, 29 Nov 2012 16:18:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7d134eab8ea3377000002
Given that there aren't enough jobs, this is both inevitable and good.
What are people supposed to do? Have kids when they aren't even sure they're going to be able to afford them? That's a recipe for a miserable life for parents and child (and too many people already live that existence).
As automation and offshoring continue (and they likely aren't ever going to be reversed since companies will ALWAYS do what is cheaper for THEM), people SHOULD take these factors into consideration when having kids. We don't have enough resources for the people we have now. Better not to keep adding to that problem.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7ce19ecad04a602000009BruceThu, 29 Nov 2012 16:05:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7ce19ecad04a602000009
If the lady in the picture needs help. I can provide my service for free and tutor her as much as she needs.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7cbcc69bedd9152000008OtisThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:55:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7cbcc69bedd9152000008
I can't decide if this is more offensive to white women, or minority women.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c9ad69beddda3f000016Badger WatchThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:46:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c9ad69beddda3f000016
Take (White) females out of the workforce and put them to work creating babies.
Problem solved.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c8ca69beddc940000019David ZadukThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:42:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c8ca69beddc940000019
We should be expanding immigration for any healthy person under 25, regardless of country of origin. I have been saying this for years, as it is the only way to pay for all the entitlements coming to the millions of baby boomers soon retiring. Of course no one will listen because I'm one of those nutjob Libertarians.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c67369bedd0e46000004MurlocThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:32:51 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c67369bedd0e46000004
Sooner or later everyone will stop making so many kids and the population will stabilize in poorer countries too. At that point the growth-based pension systems will go down the drain.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c4706bb3f7b455000001Lucius ModernusThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:24:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c4706bb3f7b455000001
it could also mean that groups which were previously having several (say 3-5+) kids are now just having 1-2 or none, no?
maybe it's just me, but how is this bad? we don't have resources for people to live like the batsh*t crazy Duggers...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c358eab8eacb56000001Just To Make Ends MeetThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:19:36 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c358eab8eacb56000001
To make it today women are working (2 worker families) and having less kids.
House prices have skyrocketed.
You cant really buy a home alone anymore.
Must be married in most major cities.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c17cecad048f6800000fjoe knowsThu, 29 Nov 2012 15:11:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b7c17cecad048f6800000f
here comes japan 2.0